Media representation Flashcards
Hall ethnicity
Blacks and asians have dark charechteristics - cause of socail problems
Hall ethnicity
Deviance \ lawbreakers - their lives revolve around crimes
Posing a threat on society through non British values
The cause of social problems - eg 2011 riots - economic strain taking up welfare benefits
Beattie et al and malik - ethlicity entertainment
Blacks more likely to be athletes / rappers than proffesionals
Islamophobia - ethnicity
A lot more after 9/11 and 2005 bombings
Mayor of London 2007 report 91% of reports on muslims were negative
Ownership and control ethnicity
Agebda setting and clickbait : eg stephen lawrence murder
Shiller globalization - ethnicity
Cultural imperialism reproduces views such as Eastern european being terrorists or villains ; rocky
Evaluation of Shiller
Assumes non westerners are passive
Evaluation Hall et al
Ethnocentric bias, disreagrds progress made
Evaluation ethnicity
Disregards other influences of the social structure- focuses on interactions
Chandler age
Talks about pester power making kids a target audience
How are kids presented 7 ways
Little devils, accessories, kids as victims, nostalgia of being a kid, little angels
AGe -Cohen adolecents
moral panics around youth - theyre a scapegoat and have little power so easily targetted
Old age
in US - 1.5% of old people old- often seen as not able to take care of themself- either invisible or negative - strain economically
Tom Shakespeare - disability
1st hand experience - believes they are made disabled by media reps and society - known as disabilism
Used as cheap laughs in tv - lazy scripwriting
Barnes disability
Also 1st hand experience - identifies repetitive stereortypes
pitable / pathetic
Sinister and evil in tv - james bond villains
sexually abnormal
not productive members of society
super cripple - only reported doing something unexpected
Roper disability
Cute for fundraising events
Pluralists disabilities
Low rep, untrue stereotypes
Disability evaluation
More woke society
Seen as heroic when they do something unexpected
metrosexual
Men who embrace their feminime side
Hetrosexuality - sex
Highlights women bodies for views - mulvey male gaze
Mcrobbie sex
Men are now judged physichally similarly to women
Gross - media today sex
Sexual anhilation of gays due to low representation in media
Cowan sex
1/5 people think media is responsible for negative stereotypes
Pluralists sex
Media is no longer done through male gaze
Pink pound
Market specifically aimed at gay people
What was support for Ellen and George Micheal coming out
Ellen 1997 - positive
George 1998 - negative
Lil NAS x - negative 2019- rapper
Working class
Genrally underrepresented - typically stereotyped as lazy, unconformative - promote meritocracy
Curren and Seaton - class
Wc little interest in public affairs
More interested in sports and celebrities
Jones class
Wc is romanticised - often seen as community coming together
Why is Eastenders controversial
one of Largest wc representative in uk media- written by mc
Evaluation of wc
Marxists - done to maintain inequalities
Pluralists - different perspectives in media
Weltman - class
Term chav is a stereotype and technique the media use to discredit wc cultures
Middle class
Over represented .
life shown positively promoting meritocracy promoted view that it is the new common lifestyle to aim for
Marxists mc evaluation
Reps erve to legitimise ineqALITIES
Pluralist mc evaluation
media dontcare about mc - only want profits
MC evaluations
over represented - form of cultural imperialism promoting western society
Often played as white hetrosexuals
nEWman upper class
Media pay too much attention on expensive goods while portraying them.
they are often portrayed as handsome and polite
Evaluation on upper class
Neo - marxists see it as celebrating the wealthy - legitimising inequalities
Pluralists - they are presented how people want to see them
Dowlings ethnicity
During 2000s the media blamed many social problems on East Europeans, £50 going, few jobs, increased crime
Cottle ethnicity
The media use key words such as we and them when refering to immigrants
Biggs - age
UK tv sitcoms show old men negatively
What are stereotypes for old people
Sexually abnormal, over-reliant, incapable, forgetful and stupid
How are old women presented
Almost invisible as women are seen as forever young and beutiful
How do Wolf and Tebbel believe women are stereotyped
Wag, Sex object, supermum, angle, ball breaker, victim
What is Ferguson’s cult of femenity
Women who read magazines in the 80s shaped their view on gender norms from it
How many journalists in major companies in Western societies did a women’s group claim were men
74%
What is symbolic anhilation
Gross and Tuchman came up with the term.
What is an evaluation from Gauntlett on sexual anhilation.
Representation may affect people differently if one is part of that group and the other is not.
Baudrillard believes this causes hyperreality while the GMG claim it creats cultural hegemony.
